GNOME started working on the webkit backend as an optional build time choice but they never considered it to be usuable or something which should be distributed, they decided to switch fully to webkit though and cleaned the code, current version is still using gecko but the webkit variant there was buggy and they prefered dropping it there and focussing on the svn webkit version
GNOME started working on the webkit backend as an optional build time choice but they never considered it to be usuable or something which should be distributed, they decided to switch fully to webkit though and cleaned the code, current version is still using gecko but the webkit variant there was buggy and they prefered dropping it there and focussing on the svn webkit version